AI agents collide with business's oldest problem: verifying work is actually done
tallmetommy · x · 2026-10-09
AI agents are about to hit business's oldest problem: "Is the work actually finished?" A smart contract can verify deadlines or signatures, but agentic systems must judge ambiguous reality.
Before moving money, the author argues, a system needs the preserved brief, evidence of delivery, an explicit standard, the reasoning behind its verdict, and a human appeal path. Autonomy without adjudication isn't commerce — it's a dispute generator.
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